Vocab #4

Question 1

emissary

Answer 1

someone sent on a mission to represent the interests of

someone else

Question 2

capricious

Answer 2

determined by chance or impulse or whim rather than by

necessity or reason; changeable

Question 3

incipient

Answer 3

only partly in existence; imperfectly formed

Question 4

brusqueness

Answer 4

an abrupt discourteous manner

Question 5

valediction

Answer 5

the act of saying farewell; a farewell oration

Question 6

disquieting

Answer 6

causing mental discomfort

Question 7

dynamism

Answer 7

the activeness of an energetic personality; active strength of
body or mind

Question 8

splendor

Answer 8

the quality of being magnificent or grand; a quality that

outshines the usual

Question 9

taut

Answer 9

pulled or drawn tight; subjected to great tension; stretched tight

Question 10

feign

Answer 10

make believe with the intent to deceive; make a pretense o

Question 11

espied

Answer 11

to catch sight of

Question 12

coiffure

Answer 12

he arrangement of the hair (especially a woman’s

hair); verb arrange attractively

Question 13

diviner

Answer 13

someone who claims to discover hidden knowledge with the aid of
supernatural powers

Question 14

specious

Answer 14

plausible but false; based on pretense; deceptively pleasing

Question 15

guttural

Answer 15

relating to or articulated in the throat

Question 16

voluble

Answer 16

marked by a ready flow of speech

Question 17

sullenness

Answer 17

a moody, resentful disposition; a gloomy, ill-tempered feeling

Question 18

tethered

Answer 18

confined or restricted with, or as if with, a rope or chain

Question 19

tremulous

Answer 19

quivering as from weakness or fear

Question 20

calamity

Answer 20

an event resulting in great loss and misfortune